How To: Enable SLI on pre-i7/i5 hardware

[whb86615]

whb86615 try next. when you are choosing boot os, choose with SLIEnabled, hit F8. a menu will show up, choose safe mode there. and tell me boot os or not

ok got it!

 

[anatolymik]

ok got it!

what do you mean by "got it"?

did os boot?

 

[anatolymik]

tell me your system specs

 

[whb86615]

what do you mean by "got it"?

did os boot?

it means i'm about to do what you told me

i did what you said but safe mode also could not boot

 

[anatolymik]

it means i'm about to do what you told me

i did what you said but safe mode also could not boot

very strange. ok go to windows\system32
look for ntkrnlpa.exe and hal.dll.
copy these files to another folder
rename ntkrnlpa.exe to ntoskrnl.exe
rename hal.dll to halsli.dll
copy renamed files to windows\system32

reboot system and try to boot with SLIEnabled

 

[whb86615]

tell me your system specs

cpu:q9550
motherboard:dfi dk p45 tr2s-plus
gpu:gtx260 X2

no sli bridge

 

[whb86615]

very strange. ok go to windows\system32
look for ntkrnlpa.exe and hal.dll.
copy these files to another folder
rename ntkrnlpa.exe to ntoskrnl.exe
rename hal.dll to halsli.dll
copy renamed files to windows\system32

reboot system and try to boot with SLIEnabled

ok i'll do it!

 

[whb86615]

very strange. ok go to windows\system32
look for ntkrnlpa.exe and hal.dll.
copy these files to another folder
rename ntkrnlpa.exe to ntoskrnl.exe
rename hal.dll to halsli.dll
copy renamed files to windows\system32

reboot system and try to boot with SLIEnabled

can't copy this two files... it says something like "i need the permission"on the folder"system32"...

 

[whb86615]

and i'm sure i am the administrator and i shut down UAC

 

[whb86615]

the previous mod works well on 191.07, so i don't think it's the hardware problem.

 

[anatolymik]

and i'm sure i am the administrator and i shut down UAC

make a screenshot of user accounts and system

 

[whb86615]

make a screenshot of user accounts and system

Bob is my user name here "管理员" means "administrator"

 

[anatolymik]

Bob is my user name here "管理员" means "administrator"

you should to enter os as administrator, not Bob. and do that i told above

 

[whb86615]

there is one more thing: my os is actived by a sofeware named Windows7Loader v3.27

 

[whb86615]

you should to enter os as administrator, not Bob. and do that i told above

ok, i'll try!

 

[whb86615]

you should to enter os as administrator, not Bob. and do that i told above

i enter os as administrator but i can't copy the two files

 

[anatolymik]

i enter os as administrator but i can't copy the two files

this is a problem number one
what do the system tell you
make a SS (screenshot)

 

[anatolymik]

and check for presence next files (in windows\system32),
ntoskrnp.exe, halsli.dll, osloadw7.exe

"rename ntkrnlpa.exe to ntoskrnl.exe" sorry to ntoskrnp.exe

 

[anatolymik]

i'll be back soon

 

[whb86615]

this is a problem number one
what do the system tell you
make a SS (screenshot)

it seems like it's my os problem... but i login as a administrator for sure

 

[whb86615]

and check for presence next files (in windows\system32),
ntoskrnp.exe, halsli.dll, osloadw7.exe

"rename ntkrnlpa.exe to ntoskrnl.exe" sorry to ntoskrnp.exe

ok it worked! i'll reboot and try!

and ntoskrnp.exe, halsli.dll, osloadw7.exe are present in system32 folder

 

[whb86615]

when i chose "win7 slienabled" to boot, it could't boot again... i think my problem may be from the"administrator‘s authority" and i need another clean os


it's already 4:00 am here, i need some sleep now. thank you very much for your patience and explanation! i won't give up trying! see you later

 

[oiluj]

To "override" those Windows permissions issues, you can use the Ubuntu 9.10 LiveCD. From there you can do whatever you want to any file, without Windows annoying you. Once done, you can boot again into Windows, but this time with modified files running.

Remember to make a backup of the original files ('hal.dll', 'ntoskrnl.exe' and 'winload.exe') first!!

And be sure that under 'bcdedit.exe' you have the lines that say "nointegritychecks -> Yes" and "testsigning -> No". You can do this manually by, at cmd, typing "bcdedit /set {current} nointegritychecks 1" and "call bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING OFF". Once done, run bcdedit.exe at cmd to check if these two lines were succesfully included.

I did it this way: First I included manually those two lines into my bcdedit. Then I made a backup of the 3 original files. Then I copied modified files with the same name as the original ones, so now I had 6 files (3 redundant): 'hal.dll', 'halsli.dll', 'ntoskrnl.exe', 'ntosknrp.exe', 'winload.exe' and 'osloadw7.exe', being the same 2 by 2. Then I used Ubuntu 9.10 LiveCD to copy these 6 files into my Windows\system32 folder (overwriting when asked).
And finally rebooted again into Windows and it booted correctly, without any single issue, and of course, with SLI available at last. Worked great on a P5K (P35 chipset) and 2x8800GT, under Windows 7 x64 and Vista x64, no problem at all, and SLI working great with 195.62 drivers (about +50% in performance gain @ 3DMark Vantage).

 

[MikeTyson]

I must do it.

ok. make sure you have a clean install of windows xp and let me know

Okay I'll do it sometime tomorrow

 

[whb86615]

I fixed it! I changed my os from windows7 32bit to windows 64bit, then everthing is OK! SLI now is working on 195.62!